Career Advancement - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2014
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2014

low-income youth and companies needing skilled labor. His yearlong training program offers 18 through 24-year-olds the technical, professional, and communications skills needed to transition into careers and college. The award-winning... View Details

01 Jun 2017
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In My Humble Opinion: Jen Wong (MBA 2004)

all the elements that are necessary to be successful in the digital media world.” Back to her roots: “The early part of my career was doing quantitative work, but I had always had a personal passion for media and creative businesses. I... View Details

Keywords: April White

05 May 2017
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Barnes & Noble Names Demos Parneros CEO

gone,” he said. Parneros comes to the job with a long career in retail: Born in Cyprus, Mr. Parneros moved to New York City when he was in elementary school and spoke no English when he arrived. He attended New York University and joined... View Details

20 Jun 2019
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Reframing Modern Art

forgotten figures to light, and how her finance career prepared her for assembling an art exhibition. READ MORE Julia Hanna: Denise, can you just tell me about the process by which you began thinking about a View Details

08 Jun 2023
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Three Alumni Clubs Celebrate Leadership, Community, and History over Dinner

Clubs News Clubs News New York Alumni Honor Outstanding Leaders at Annual Dinner The HBS Club of New York held its 54th Annual Leadership Dinner on April 24, honoring three alumni who embody the HBS mission to "educate leaders who make a difference in the world," and... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Mar 2006
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Tap into Valuable Alumni Resources

faculty’s latest research, brings together corporate leaders and government officials from around the globe, and provides unparalleled networking. You can also learn about programs tailored to alumni career View Details

Keywords: Peter Cooper; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Sep 2024
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Fueling Innovation

experimenting with generative artificial intelligence. In recent years, enhancements to the program have included Short Intensive Programs that enable students to think about career choices, gain practical skills, and explore new topics,... View Details

01 Jun 2008
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A Binary Formula

career in drug development and biotech companies, leading both R&D and business functions. She teaches the MBA elective Inventing Breakthroughs and Commercializing Science and an Executive Education offering Leading Science-Based... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; science; research; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management

09 Aug 2017
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Finding a Path Out of Poverty

for Inspire Belief while studying in the HBS Advanced Management Program, in 2013. The CEO of Johannesburg investing house Momentum—who had once been homeless on the streets of the very same city—had reached the point in his View Details

01 Dec 2020
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AI Enhances Diagnostic Care

likelihood of an illness, and precision imaging that can detect abnormalities not visible to the human eye. Tantawy says that MRC, founded in 1989, uses advanced technologies to deliver the highest standards of health care in the field of... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

21 Jun 2020
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Rooting out Racism

players—spurred into action after the death of George Floyd—spoke out. “The final, most pernicious category undergirds the everyday black experience,” Rice writes. These practices put people of color at a disadvantage in the competition with their white peers for View Details

01 Mar 2019
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The HBS Fund

pursuing MBAs and careers in business and technology. “Without financial aid, I wouldn’t be here and be able to share my story,” she explains. Advancing Women Leaders In Japan HBS faculty members are engaged... View Details

01 Jan 2004
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Minoru Makihara, 75th AMP, 1977

England and had studied for a year at St. Paul's, a prep school in New Hampshire, before graduating Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard College in 1954. In a system where career advancement could often be hindered... View Details

30 Aug 2021
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One and the Same

rather than a weakness.” Wooldridge has been working to subvert gender imbalances ever since. In May, she was named director of the Workplace Gender and Equality Agency (WGEA), a government entity devoted to promoting and improving gender equality in Australian... View Details

Keywords: wage gap; COVID; women; equality; leadership

04 Nov 2016
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The Competitiveness of Lost Causes

days,” he recalls, “having an interest in business-government collaborations was unusual. Many of my classmates were looking toward careers in finance and were more of the opinion that governments just needed to get out of the way.” At... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Oct 2000
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Willoughby G. Walling II: A Learning Experience

different times, in dissimilar styles and moods. "None of these individually captures me, but together they do," explains Walling, a quietly intense man who has been painting full-time for just a year. A history major at Stanford, Walling went on to earn View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Feb 2002
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Health Industry Alumni Convene for Conference

Genome Research. The evening's keynote speaker, Guidant Corporation group chairman Ginger Graham (MBA '86), reviewed issues and technology advances in the field of cardiology. The next day's presentations included a breakfast seminar... View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

09 Mar 2021
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Community Colleges as Engines of Economic Opportunity

America needs people to have more chances to advance in this economy. That is the American dream we all hope to be true and want to see come to fruition for as many individuals as possible.” By eliminating the $5,000 a year cost to earn a... View Details